NIGERIA: GOOD NEWS & BAD
GOOD NEWS — The Nigerian military Joint Task Force (JTF) has had some significant successes against Boko Haram. On Monday 17 September, in a joint operation in Kano with State Security Services (SSS), Boko Haram’s...
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Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani released
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani was released from prison on Saturday, Sept. 8, after remaining in custody for nearly three years while fighting apostasy charges and a death sentence. Authorities dropped the apostasy charge and retained only...
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Health Concerns For Pastor Farhad Sabokroh
Concerns are growing over health condition of Pastor Farhad Sabokroh who was arrested together with Naser Zamen-Defzuli and Davoud (David) Alijani. They have now been in custody for over 40 days. According to Iranian Christian...
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John Casias and Wanda Casias, a Missionary Couple Slain in Mexico
John Casias, 76, and Wanda Casias, 67, a married couple who had served for 28 years as Baptist missionaries in Mexico were murdered on Tuesday (Jan. 31) at their home near Monterrey in El Cercado,...
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Karnataka Most Dangerous State in India for Christians
Karnataka is the Most Dangerous State in India for Christians. Southern state remains most volatile place for third straight year, according to Compass Direct News. Attacks on Christians accelerated over the Christmas and New Year’s...
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Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s Death Sentence
Google+ASSIST News Service has learned that the written ruling from the Iranian Supreme Court has finally been delivered to Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s attorney. According to Jason DeMars of Present Truth Ministries Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani (Photo...
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Tensions Rise in Egypt Over Two Missing Christian Girls
Google+Tension is escalating over the case of 14-year-old Nancy Magdy Fathy, and her 16-year old cousin Christine Ezzat Fathy, who have disappeared and allegedly converted to Islam. Many parties are being pulled into the dispute...
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Pastor, Church Official Shot Dead in Nigeria
Google+Muslim extremists from the Boko Haram sect shot and killed a Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) pastor and his church secretary in Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria’s Borno state. Usman and his wife during...
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U.S. Embassy in Pakistan Condemns Terrorist Attack in Peshat Bazaar in Bajaur
The United States Embassy in Pakistan has strongly deplores today’s terrorist attack at the Peshat Bazaar in Bajaur. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of the victims,” said a spokesman for the U.S....
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Muslims Attack Christian Protesters in Egypt; Over 100 Injured
Google+Muslims attacked Coptic Christian protesters at Maspero three times on Saturday, killing one and injuring over 100. According to a story by Mary Abdelmassih for the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), the first attack occurred...
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Pakistan’s ‘Blasphemy’ Laws Pose Growing Threat
Compass Direct News (CDN) its reporting that Pakistan’s notorious “blasphemy” laws can put even children at risk, and Christians say the days when they could teach their offspring pat answers to protect them from accusations...
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Afghan Christian Refugees Face Probable Imprisonment or Death if Deported Back to Homeland
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that seven Afghan Christians and their families who fled their homeland to India and were requesting refugee status were denied their requests by the UN in recent weeks and...
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Pakistani Christian Nurse ‘Kidnapped’
Farah Hatim, a 24-year-old Pakistani Christian student nurse, who has been working in the orthopedic ward at the Sheikh Zaid Medical College in Rahim Yar Khan, South Punjab, was allegedly kidnapped on Sunday, May 8,...
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Egypt: Christians attacked in Cairo
In the 1980s, thousands of Egyptian Salafi (‘pure Islam’) jihadists went to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. As the veterans started returning home to Egypt in the 1990s, domestic terrorism escalated, so President Mubarak blacklisted...
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Mentally ill Christian Charged with ‘Blasphemy’ in Pakistan
Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that police in Chichawatni, Sahiwal district have charged a mentally ill Christian with “injuring religious feelings” under Pakistan’s widely condemned blasphemy laws. Another victim of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Shahbaz...
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Nigerian Pastor’s Wife, Children among Christians Killed in Attack
Compass Direct News (CDN) has described the moving scene that took place recently in the home of a Nigerian pastor whose wife lay dying after a savage attack on his family (and their village), in...
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Shahbaz Bhatti : The Authentic Hope Of The Cross
“We give thanks to God for having placed an authentic martyr in our path, a witness to Christian faith, who was able to ‘say’ and ‘do’. Shahbaz Bhatti is a reminder that in the Cross...
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‘No Mention’ Of Shahbaz Bhatti During The Sunday Morning Service At Karachi’s Cathedral And Other Major Churches In The City
It was a strange situation last Sunday (March 6, 2011) in Karachi, the largest city, main seaport and the also the financial center of Pakistan, where it appears that not one major church there mentioned...
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Protest Rally against Shahbaz Bhatti’s Assassination
Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP), recently organized a protest rally in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad, against the brutal assassination of the Federal Mnister for Minorities’ affairs Mr. Shahbaz Bhatti. Protestors at the rally Hundreds...
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Shahbaz Bhatti laid to rest in Pakistan
Over 30,000 mourners and protestors from many different religions in Pakistan, gathered on Friday, March 4, 2011, in Khushpur – whose name means “the dwelling of the happy” – for the funeral of Mr. Clement...
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Christians Across Pakistan Protest the Killing of Shahbaz Bhatti
Thousands of Pakistani Christians on Thursday (March 3, 2011) took part in protest rallies across Pakistan to show their anger against the brutal assassination of the Federal Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti, in Islamabad....
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Bhatti’s murder poses real challenge
A few years ago, Shahbaz Bhatti confided in a friend: “I don’t want to get married, because I know that sooner or later an assassin’s bullet will find me; it will only be unfair to...
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The Burial of Shahbaz Bhatti
today (Friday, March 4, 2011) they buried my friend and brother in Christ, Shahbaz Bhatti in his home village of Khushpur. BBC News reports that thousands turned out to honor their leader and the crowds...
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Protests Against The Brutal Murder Of Shahbaz Bhatti
The news of the brutal murder of Mr. Shahbaz bhatti, 42, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs, has shocked the religious minorities of Pakistan, particularly the Christians. Protesters holding banners (Photo by Ahsan Sadaqat, ANS)...
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Shahbaz Bhatti, Martyr for the Cross of Christ
Shahbaz Bhatti, the only Christian in the cabinet of the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), was assassinated within the last twenty-four hours. Shahbaz Bhatti with the Cross that he so powerfully followed Shortly after he...
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Murder of Pastor in Honduras Raises Security Questions
Google+The recent murder of a prominent pastor in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, has focused attention on that country’s alarming murder rate and the regular threats that Christian workers there receive. Pastor Carlos Roberto Marroquín According...
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Muslims Abduct Coptic Christian Woman in Egypt
A Middle East journalist is claiming that Muslims broke into the home of a Coptic family this afternoon (Saturday, February 19, 2011) and abducted their 18-year-old daughter Nesma Sarwat. Mary Abdelmassih, in a report for...
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Pakistan police says no to blasphemy case against Sherry Rehman
Pakistan Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gillani, last week categorically announced that the government will not amend the blasphemy law and instructed Peoples Party parliamentarian Sherry Rehman to with draw the bill for proposed amendment in...
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Iranian Christians Face Intense Persecution
George O. Wood and others of the Executive Leadership Team at the Assemblies of God national offices in Springfield, Missouri, recently participated in an international conference call with leaders of the Pentecostal movement in Iran....
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Christians described as blood-sucking bed bugs that must be killed
The Sangh Parivar (combined Hindu nationalist forces) held their second ‘Samajik Kumbh’ (social gathering) on the banks of the Narmada River in Mandla, Madhya Pradesh, on 10-12 February 2011. In the preceding two weeks some...
